Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-13
NUMBER 27.
Along the Road.

| the "oriu could get along without, yet when
we see vast stretches of uninhabited coun-
tries lying waste because so far from any,
where, clear way-out of the reach of any but
a hermit, or hunter, or trapper, no one
would live there. But let railroad be To-
, Gated through such country and see how
quick inhabitants will begin to pour in and
and fill up the waste places, and towns and
villages spring up on every side, with all the
accompanying industries and refinements of
civilized society, and it is surprising how
manv ways will be found to make money,
which had never before been thought of.
The timber in all its great variety of kinds
and its various uses, will be taken from the
mountain tops and the hills and valleys and
carried to parts of the world to supply the
needs of those that have no timber. All the
ores of all the mines vii! be brought into
use, all the rock for building purposes and
paving streets, and hundreds of other uses
And one of the most humble of occupations
in the land, that requires no capital or skill
to manufacture, one that the humblest la
borer can carry on at his own door, and one
that has grown to be of real importance
hoops. What a source of revenue the hoop
pole business has become, can be seen in
every town or village by the immense piles
| OF hoops at each store, and so with thousands
| OF other things. Take game IN it's season:
| | was told while at Piedmont that as high as
fifty deer were shipped from that point alone |
in night. l can remember when you could |
get all the venison u person wanted for little |
| or nothing. And as a country becomes filled |
| up with people, you will see nice churches
| and its schoolhouse, and we are apt to Judge
| the character of the people by their works; if
we see nice churches, nice schoohouses,
nice dwellings, with handsome yards and
neat fences and yeards filed with flowers
and shrubbery, good streets and sidewalks,
we say such people are intelligent and ac-
compllsbed. educated people, people that
one would be willing to cast their lot with,
But let the people of town neglect their
streets and public buildings, as Well as their
private property, and you will see a place
where all good people will pass on the other
side. | remember in our journey coming
west, we passed through town situated in
a lovely part of the country, with large farms q
on every side and splendid roads through
the town; but the houses had all gone to ,
rack and ruin-doors all eskew. windows :
broken, old hats mud old clothes stuffed in
where the glass was gone, blinds hanging ON
one hinge, gates ajar, fences broken, weather
boards hanging by one end, and no signs of
lie or industry. As we drove thrppgA The Z
town we saw only one solitary person on the Il
streets, and that T4s . woman of middle age Il
from the looks, dressed in old faded clothes, G
with pair of old no heeled shoes and no
stockings on her feet. As we drove past her :,
asked her the name of the town; she said, p
Paradise. said Paradise lost Who would
i've in such town and among such peo pes %
And, after all, what good will railroad be s
20 country that has got no public roads to b
get to the railroads Roads may be my hob Il
~, and why should IT not be so, for was n
BORN and raised where they had the best of :,
'oads. Good roads have been burned into -
ny heart from the time was Ass enaagh to s
'oast down those long, smooth hill roads, O.
With that little black eyed girl sitting on the al
led before me, and in after years when large n
nough to go buggy riding with beautiful W
oung lady with blue eyes, rosy chasks and q
aucy lips, and in the winter with good .e
raVeier hitched to i beautiful, sleigh, well ~
wrapped IA buffalo robes, we went aEim- | nj
llng over the country. All. /. was splen- a
Id. And then, in after Years, when kept 10
achelor's hall on old Brewers Greek, and CO
awed lumber through the winter and spring te
nd IN the summer alter the crops were laid nc
y, with a team of three yoke of oxen hauled
lie lumber home, over such a road. such a
oad and what time did have: these hot
usty roads,oxe hot,with tongues out as far ,,o
they could get them, and when we reach
/ the creek, how those oxen would stam- III
ede for sne water, and go in the deep holes t't
water as long as they could keep their w
aads out. Webster's dictionary hsa no wi
ords long enough to do the SUBJECT Justice ul
begin to express }ay feelings. Now, if i'm
ere is any one thing that Is more aggra, at g.,
g than another, Inhink-and 1 think nv. :"
If capable Of judg1ng-it is to drive An OK
am oyer such roads in hot weather. look su
pom good road as means Of grace, Show su
e a man or woman saaf could drive a bug DO
over such roads op their way to church ult
Id keep their thoughts and hearts i'm proper m,
ame OF mind, or on their way home from th,
urch, after hearing good Sermon not l.,
80 their tempers? H'm. Iron county Is
id to have some of the best roads In Soutb- on
st Missouri, and, | believe III has, for 7 sio
ticed in some of ths trips 1 have taken rae
Is winter tAst some OF the roads are very
ods but must say l saw some as bad {
ADS as one would wish to see. We win
'e, for instance, the road from charley
ik's to Brunot and from Tin~1sp to Pied.
mt. know all of the goad ~ not In Iron
inty, but II any one vaR tell me where the sic
IN county line j. by the good or badness nu
The foaa. should like to see it. They are wh
crookedest roads and show less work than tn
7 others have seen for wears. I don.t -
D" VINO are the overseers. / don't know I.
here is any. Now do know the State of ;.
ssouri has good road Laws if complied !"
h, and do think tAsre is no reason why POI
the public roads should not be at least Wit
sable. When I look back to years gone dis
and see in my minds eye the curses and out
Ws rained down on the poor oxen and T
les that did their best to serve their mas th q
). feel that somebody will have an awful ;. :,
cunt to give, at some future time II all -.
curses and beatings were grayes. ON the
DIS what splendid roads we aaald have, 'nH
If was to turn gSv~eher, there is but gen
text would xEsaeh from and that is, 3
raight apt aarfow Is the road that loads =
il - iiia, and few there be that find it." sof
7. .P.R es
o Emma, Julia and Fredriek kohlhage,
dren of J. w. KohlhaGs. deceased, late
Pilot Knob, Mo have small sum of A
ney % say hands due each OF you which call
be had by application and proof to and